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  • The U.S. Is a More Dangerous Country for Women than North Korea, 548 Women’s Rights Experts Concluded

    The U.S. Is a More Dangerous Country for Women than North Korea, 548 Women’s Rights Experts Concluded0

    Suggesting that many of the world’s most grave problems have been solved, experts in women’s rights from around the world rank the United States among the 10 most dangerous countries for women. Sadly, however, issues such as female genital mutilation, arranged marriage, rape as a weapon of war, honor killings, and maternal mortality haven’t stopped. Rather,

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  • The U.S. is a Democratic Constitutional Republic, and Yes, It Matters

    The U.S. is a Democratic Constitutional Republic, and Yes, It Matters2

    James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution and primary author of the Bill of Rights, repeatedly emphasized that the United States is a “republic” and not a “democracy.” In stark contrast, Jonathan Bernstein, a Bloomberg columnist and former political science professor recently insisted: “One of this age’s great crank ideas, that the U.S. is

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  • The U.S. Has the Fattest Poor People in the World. Why?

    The U.S. Has the Fattest Poor People in the World. Why?0

    Recent reports show that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world—the only G-8 nation to crack the top 20 of the most overweight countries in the world. For children and low-income people the problem is particularly acute. A 2015 report commission by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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  • The U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition

    The U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition0

    Between 1920 and 1933 America engaged in a “Noble Experiment”—prohibiting “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes” via the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment was repealed in 1933. As

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  • The Tyranny of Rationalism and Michael Oakeshott

    The Tyranny of Rationalism and Michael Oakeshott1

    Michael Oakeshott was one of the most important philosophers of the 1900s, but perhaps because he was an Englishman, his work is not very well known in America. That’s a shame. By tracing the deep roots of modern political thought, Oakeshott laid bare the dangers of rationalism—and predicted the divisive politics we see today. Oakeshott

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  • The Tyranny of Equality in Education

    The Tyranny of Equality in Education5

    It’s growing increasingly clear that America’s students aren’t the little geniuses we’ve always thought them to be. School after school in states across the country produce abysmally poor results. In fact, many schools are lucky if their students achieve more than 50% proficiency in the basics of reading, math, and science. Such a scenario calls

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